 Nay, never falter : no great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The undivided will to seek the good : 'Tis that compels the elements, and wrings A human music from the indifferent air. The greatest...  The London Quarterly Review - Side 186redigert av - 1869Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 372 sider
...certain good ? ZARCA. Nay, never falter: no great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The undivided...fail ! — We feed the high tradition of the world, And leave our spirit in Zincalo breasts. FEDALMA (unclasping her jewelled belt, and throwing it down.)... | |
 | 1868 - 978 sider
...certain good ? Z AUCA. Kay, never falter ; no greet deed is done By falterere who ask for certainty. No good is certain but the steadfast mind, The undivided...music from the indifferent air. The greatest gift a hero leaves his race Is to have been a hero. Say we fail ! — Wo feed the high tradition of the... | |
 | 1868 - 1036 sider
...makes a woman's lot.' ' Nay, never falter : no great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain but the steadfast mind, The undivided...seek the good : 'Tis that compels the elements and rings A human music from the indifferent air.' 'As prave 'ortsas you shall see in a summer day,' leading... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1868 - 570 sider
...sharp pangs buy any certain goodî" — " No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The undivided will to seek the good. ***** The greatest gift the hero leaves his race Is to have been a hero. Say we fail ! We feed the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1868 - 296 sider
...certain good ? ZARCA. Nay, never falter : no great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The undivided will to seek the good : 'T is that compels the elements, and wrings A human music from the indifferent air. The greatest... | |
 | 1868 - 582 sider
...mind, The undivided will to seek the good. ***** The greatest gift the hero leaves his race Is to nave been a hero. Say we fail ! We feed the high tradition of the world." And when Fedalma eagerly responds : " I will seek nothing but to shun base joy," wo are conscious of... | |
 | 1868 - 690 sider
...speaking of " the steadfast mind, the undivided will to seek the good," says most admirably, — " 'T is that compels the elements, and wrings A human music from the indifferent air." When the Prior pronounces Fedalma's blood " unchristian as the leopard's," Don Silva retorts with,... | |
 | Harry Buxton Forman - 1871 - 536 sider
...a thought as this : ' Nay, never falter : no great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The undivided...good : 'Tis that compels the elements, and wrings A hnman music from the indifferent air. The greatest gift the hero leaves his race Is to have heen a... | |
 | John Morley - 1871 - 396 sider
...and precious things. Beyond and outside of this, there is only one certain result of virtue in a man. No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The undivided will to seek the good. De Maistre' s ideas upon Prayer fit in rather oddly with his theories of the chastising judge, and... | |
 | John Morley - 1871 - 398 sider
...precious things. Beyond and outside of this, there is only one certain result of virtue in a man. Ko good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The undivided will to seek the good. De Maistre's ideas upon Prayer fit in rather oddly with his theories of the chastising judge, and of... | |
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